Brownian motion and Ricci curvature on an infinite dimensional symplectic group related to the diffeomorphism group of the circle

Abstract

An embedding of the group $\Diff(S^{1})$ of orientation preserving diffeomorphims of the unit circle $S^1$ into an infinite-dimensional symplectic group, $\Sp(\infty)$, is studied. The authors prove that this embedding is not surjective. A Brownian motion is constructed on $\Sp(\infty)$. This study is motivated by recent work of H. Airault, S. Fang and P. Malliavin. The Ricci curvature of the infinite-dimensional symplectic group is computed. The result shows that in almost all directions, the Ricci curvature is negative infinity.